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Google getting into the Travel Industry??

A low-profile software company in Cambridge may be worth $1 billion to Internet search giant Google. Well, ITA claims to handle more than 65 percent of the sales transactions on airline websites, including six of the 10 largest US airlines’ sites.

A Google purchase of ITA would help the dominant search engine compete with Microsoft’s upstart Bing search service, which has a prominent travel area that uses ITA software and features tools like ticket price predictors.
PhoCusWright’s Philip Wolf said: “What this rumored deal signals is that you can’t be serious in search without doing a better job with airlines to search, shop, and buy travel. . . . A combination of Google and ITA would be positioned to create a whole new standard for online travel sites.’’
Google could use ITA Software’s tools, which help users find online flight information, to compete with travel-search features offered by Microsoft. The companies are tussling for share in the U.S. market for online travel, which generated $88.4 billion in sales last year, according to Sherman, Connecticut, travel consulting firm PhoCusWright Inc.
“Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information, and ITA does that for travel,” said Henry Harteveldt, an analyst at Forrester Research Inc. in San Francisco.

Resource: Boston Globe

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Downhill from Here Volcano Surfing in Nicaragua

Volcano Boarding through Tierra Tour León, Nicaragua As your Icelandic friends can tell you, volcanoes are nothing to kid around with. They're big, they're filled with molten rock, and, from time to time, they like to show off for the outside world. But you've never let the threat of a little lava stand in the way of a good time. Introducing Volcano Boarding, your chance to take a high-speed slide down the sandy slope of a Nicaraguan rumbler, running now. Basically, this is your chance to find the same rush of speed you get in the Swiss Alps—only someone swapped those well-traversed snowy peaks for 1,600 feet of volcanic pebbles. A brave outfit called Tierra Tour will bus you to a peak known as Cerro Negro, hike with you to the top and outfit you with the necessary jumpsuit, pads and good wishes—and then you tear down the rough slope on a snowboard-style wooden plank. (You need something tougher than a regular board to stand up to this terrain.) The last eruption was in 1999, disrupting boarding for a solid two days, and there could be another any day now. So you'll want to watch your back—or request a toboggan-style board that'll rocket you down at up to 40 miles an hour. Which we're pretty sure is faster than lava. Note: Volcano Boarding, booking trips now, more info here